Highest Protein Pennsylvania DHIA Herds For November
herds above 675 pounds of protein In Pennsylvania OHIA for No-
H sted b V county. In addition, herds from New Jersey and New York are also
listed. They are as follows:
NAME
SPUNGOLD HOLSTEINS
KE-HOLTZ DAIRY
BUTTONWOOD FARMS
LAGGING STREAM FARM
KENNETH H WENGER
KE-HOLTZ DAIRY 2
BROWN VALLEY FARM
STONER DAIRY
Huntingdon County Dai
GAIL STROCK
M\fJUn Co. Correspondent
HUNTINGDON (Hunting
don Co.) The Huntingdon
County 4-H Dairy Bowl Team
won all challenges at State
Achievement Days at Penn
State earlier this year, earning a
trip to Louisville, Ky., on No
vember 4 to compete nationally
in the 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl at
the North American Interna
tional Livestock Expo.
At the national competition,
22 teams answered 50 difficult
written test questions on dairy
husbandry, dairy products, and
the dairy industry. Further into
the competition, team members
answered 20 questions and prob
lem-solving scenarios.
Team members Katie Suba,
Teresa Suba, Kara Schilling,
Bryan Rader, and helper Tim
Brockett and coach Sally Kaylor
met recently at the Huntingdon
County Cooperative Extension
Office to talk about their experi
ence.
“We worked a couple of
hours every week studying
Hoard’s Dairyman,” Kara ex
plained. “I liked the whole thing
(Dairy Expo). We met a lot of
new people from other states.”
“I was proud of us for going that
far,” agrees Bryan. “We did a
good job while there and had a
good time. We’d like to win
Samantha Foster of Huntingdon County placed second
in the class with her winter yearling Brown Swiss, Shady
side Jetway Cinnamons Crystal, during the National
Junior Brown Swiss Show in Louisville, Kentucky.
NO COWS
IN MILK
ADAMS
MILK
LBS
FAT
LBS
81.5
354 0
146 7
150.2
185.6
11.4
70.8
57 6
25449
25386
23325
22888
22876
24610
22365
23138
State Achievement Days again.”
Teresa explained that this
particular team can’t compete at
Louisville again. “I was really
surprised we went (to Louis
ville), but the state Junior Hol
stein competition last February
was a harder competition. The
questions at State Achievement
Days were easier than the
Junior Holstein questions.”
“I am proud of us,” Katie
adds. “I never expected to go
with a team. I’ve been to the All
American in Harrisburg and the
World Dairy Expo in Madison,
Wisconsin. Louisville was the
third big event. I was excited to
go. I’m a cow and horse fanatic,
so I was in seventh heaven! I
really enjoyed getting together
as a team to prepare.”
Although not a competing
team member, Tim Brockett
learned by simply being at the
Expo. “The Expo is really great.
The team did a great job.”
The team’s preparation began
with coach Sally Kaylor, a learn
ing support teacher at the Hun
tingdon Area High School. ‘T
learned as we went along,” said
Kaylor. “I learned at the
coaches meeting in Louisville
that all of the test questions are
reviewed by a nutritionist, a
physicist, and a geneticist.
“There’s a lot of science in
volved. These team members
ROY E BOWSER
FAT
PCT
PRO
LBS
TE S. MARYJEAN GROOMS
MAYPORT HILLS HOLST
3.9 815
3.5 755
4.0 730
3.9 725
3 5 722
3.6 719
4.0 713
3.4 711
BONZO ONE-O-ONE
DIANE BURRY
FRED SCHEEL
ROCKLANE FARM
MARLIN D HEISEY
ANDY T MOHR 73.8
PAUL & DAVID HELSEL# 127.6
ARMSTRONG
97.6 24273
69.8 22296
52.1 21862
BEAVER
38.7
21.8
44.8
BEDFORD
62 3
76.5
y Bowl Team Competes At Louisville
The Huntingdon 4-H Dairy Bowl Team competed on the national level during the Dairy
Quiz Bowl at the North American International Livestock Expo in Louisville, Ky. Left to
right is coach Sally Kaylor, Bryan Rader, Katie Suba, Teresa Suba, and Kara Schilling. In
front is Tim Brackett.
worked hard. While there, we
met people from Kansas we
knew because of the 4-H ex
change group. It’s a small world.
“I want to thank Christine
Corl, our 4-H Extension Agent.
She helped organize the trip and
eet funding,” Sally explained. “I
Columbia County 4-H Dairy Club
Learns About Milk Quality
LEWISBURG (Union Co.)
The Columbia County 4-H
Dairy Club recently participated
in several workshops that
helped them learn more about
milk quality.
At a 4-H meeting, members
participated in a milk tasting
contest, learned about the kinds
of things that keep milk from
tasting its best, and about ways
to prevent milk from obtaining
off-flavors. They learned that
keeping the cows in a clean envi
ronment, milking healthy cows,
ensuring proper ventilation, and
performing regular maintenance
on milking equipment are just
some of the ways that dairy pro
ducers can ensure top quality,
good tasting milk.
Protecting milk from off
flavors is important to the in
dustry. Consumers demand
consistency when purchasing
any product and because milk is
a perishable product that is vul
nerable to off-flavors, it is vital
that producers are concerned
with the taste of the milk that
they are producing. The 4-H
members tasted 14 milk samples
including one that was good,
and 13 additional samples that
were adjusted to taste salty,
malty, feedy, weedy, rancid,
dirty and oxidized.
761
721
777
751
685
678
3 1
3.2
3.6
27866 1011
21870 816
21301 756
894
699
680
3.6
3.7
3.5
32066 1118
27558 917
25644 937
24043 946
978
843
826
776
3.5
3.3
3.7
3.9
want to thank Curt Schilling for
helping chaperone and our
sponsors Laney’s Feed Mill,
Standing Stone FFA, Dallard
Farm, Carol Clymer, County
Wide Dairy Club, Huntingdon
Kiwanis Club, 4-H Develop
ment Committee, the Junior and
Senior Holstein Clubs, Wanda
Jeremiah Mensinger correctly
identified six off-flavors in the
12 and over age group, and
Aaron Fester named four cor
rectly in the 11 and under age
group. Both Jeremiah and
Aaron received sweatshirts for
their winning entries.
Because high bacteria counts
are responsible for some off
flavors in milk, the club traveled
to Penn State to learn how to
properly plate samples. Club
members were provided infor
mation on what causes high bac
teria counts on the farm, what
bacteria needs to grow, and
where mastitis-causing bacteria
come from. Members brought
samples of milk from their home
bulk tanks.
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HAROLD S ZIMMERMAN
MEADOW CREEK FARM
J AND S FARM 69.3
MOUNTAIN SPRINGS FRM 59 4
OBIE SNIDER
STEVE + JERI RITCHEY
SILVERDALE FARM
EUGENE STAUFFER
MICHAEL STOLTZFUS
JTJ WAKEFIELD FARMS
RUSSELL WYLES
JUNGE FARMS INC %RAY
HIDDENVIEW HOLSTEINS
ROLLING ACRES FARM
RING-KUL FARM
EARL R HAFER & SONS
DON & AMY RICE
25383
24099
23544
23174
21953
23227
23018
21980
22208
21966
21766
64.8
181 2
191.9
69 4
28.7
41.9
65 3
105 2
94.7
BERKS
85 1 29201 1141
69.6 28904 1026
41 9 27923 985
49 4 26911 967
215.4 26931 897
96.4 25843 966
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Crosby-Parsons from the
Wiseoy Pet Food Company in
State College, and Dale Olver
and Dr. John Brockett. We ap
preciate their support.”
The team members are now
preparing for the Junior Hol
stein Dairy Bowl competition in
February.
Bhushan Jayarao and using
proper techniques, members
each plated their milk sample on
four different plates and placed
them in the incubator. Club
members also received demon
strations from Dr. Jayarao’s
staff, toured the dairy barns,
and attended a cattle sale.
Jayarao and his staff visited
the Penn State Cooperative Ex
tension in Columbia County to
teach members how to interpret
the results of their bacteria
plates. Members counted the
number of bacteria on their
plates and calculated the stan
dard plate count for their sam
ples. Members further took
colonies of bacteria from their
plates and learned how to pre
pare and stain the slides to view
bacteria microscopically.
3 5 776
3.7 757
3 7 750
3.6 737
3.7 715
3.9 713
3.7 707
3.7 688
3.6 683
3.7 680
3 7 678
3.9 929
3.6 900
3.5 890
3.6 883
3.3 855
3.7 840